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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: =?UTF-8?Q?sgtmartnisbakker?= <sgtmartnisbakker@o2.pl>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:39:00 +0200
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?THANKS=20FOR=20YOUR=20MAIL?=


Dear Partner,Thank you very much for your reply, I really appreciate your concern.I hope you were not too embarrassed by my first email to you since you do not know me.so we resulted to putting fate to test and making a random contact.I got your email address from the web email directory and decided to introduce our plight and this transaction.I am communicating with only you at this moment with regards to this transaction.and i would not have any cause to do otherwise,except you state your intention to withdraw your assistance.this fund is presently in a private security and holding firm in The Netherlands.The most important thing is to claim the consignment from the security company. this consignment am talking about contain the sum of $25 Million US dollars and it has allready been deliver to a security company in Amsterdam.All that i want from you is to help us clam the money so that they can deliver it to you in your country. As I told you earlier,we has keep aside 50% of this money as your compensation,I also like you to know that this transaction is legal and I have all the documents involve in my possesion, when we come to agreement I shall send you the documents,Thereby making you our partner who is to receive the consignment.so please you are to send to me your full name that is going to be on the document that i am going to send to you as the new partner and i will allso like you to send to me your telephone number so that i can call you for more informatiomI await your urgent responce.Thank you very much once again and God bless.Sincerely,Sgt Martins Bakker


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